This picture hangs above my kitchen table. It was originally a gift my sister and I bought for my dad but has been with me since the day we tried to give it to him. My dad explained art doesn’t speak the same to everyone. The picture always spoke to me. I always fantasized looking at this picture. To be that wealthy, beautiful lady dancing in the rain on the beach with someone she was completely in love with. I…
Yesterday I had to make my way to the mall. When I first got there I couldn’t find any parking where I needed to park. They had these new spaces that were for the handicap now call Simon reserved parking. This I guess is for people who have some kind of card with the mall. All the malls by me on Long Island are Simon malls. So I guess this is Simon pass whatever it is have priority parking and…
It was one of those nights. I was up all night. I had a little bellyache. I ate Chinese food, I never eat Chinese food. My belly didn’t agree with the Chinese food. Instead of going into the details of why I was going on all night let’s discuss the details of sleep. The average American sleep 6.8 hours a night. The average MS patient probably needs a good 12 hours a night. I’m willing to bet they don’t get…
I have finished my first bottle of high dose biotin. I’ve been taking a 100mg pill three times a day as the clinical studies patients were taking. My doctor felt that it was an excellent option for me to try since I am clearly progressing. She found a website www.highdosebiotin.net where you can purchase the pills without a prescription. It is slightly costly at $60 a bottle. Before I tell you my first month thoughts on it let me explain…
Its Sunday today and I’m spending the day with my family. We are getting ready to go out for a scrumptious breakfast to start our day. To a place that I’m promised the pancakes are fluffy and stacked really high. Then we are going to take a little ride to find a nice town to walk around in and just shop. Take in the beautiful fall day spending time with each other. Then I’ll come home and spend a nice…
In New York, you don’t need much to get a permit for handicap parking. I got my first handicap parking permit when I was working in NYC for the parking at the train station. It was very early in my MS years and I was relatively well at first look. I’m sure when I used the parking permit and people saw me get out of the car there were quick judgements that I looked fine, why did I need a…
For many years now my neurologist has wanted me to wear a brace on my legs. I finally gave in to this and was fitted for the brace. Why did I need a brace? Why would anyone with MS need a brace? Well there are several reasons a person might benefit from a brace let’s start with weakness of the muscles. Muscle weakness can cause a problem called foot drop where the top portion of your foot drags on the…
If you’re newly diagnosed with MS chances are you have in the middle of coming off of having some sort of attack or relapse or whatever you want to call it where you got sick and your diagnosis was made to be MS. At this point is usually shock. And I’m sure you come home from seeing the doctor and go right onto the Internet looking up everything you can possibly look up for MS. But let’s start at the…
Billy Joel’s song Honesty is playing through my head right now, why? Because when it comes to your MS doctor it is the only way. Your MS doctor is probably a neurologist of some sort maybe they’re an MS specialist maybe they’re not, but whatever the doctor you need to have a special enough relationship with them that you can speak honestly. You need to be able to be really comfortable that you could say anything especially as the years go…
Could I honestly have MS for 18 years and never discuss a symptom that will eventually effect 80% of people with MS. Let’s start with basic urology lessons of what a healthy bladder does when functioning correctly. We make urine in our kidneys that travels down two tubes called ureters to the bladder, an elastic sac that holds urine. When all is good and working right as the urine is stored the sac expands. When it expands nerves in the…
